Epidemia's blog: "Photography is Damned Serious"

So, if anyone is looking to follow my continuation in the photographers world, and I haven't got the means to do so here anymore, I have two other places you can check out. First is: http://mynameisepidemic.deviantart.com/ That site may include portraiture, nature, zoo, self-portraits, nudes (tasteful, as I've always done), etc. You can also buy prints from that site, or through me. The other spot to check out is: www.myspace.com/anewdawnphotography I've got just about everything here as well, but include more of my event photography, and no nudes at all (obviously, its myspace). I only just created it and still have a lot to add and organize into folders, but just in case you want to be able to find me often and myspace is more your thing anyways. If you add me on either site, let me know who you are with a link to your page here or something. Not that I wont add you, but sometimes I like to know who's who, especially if you don't have a photo of yourself anywhere.

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." -Marilyn Monroe

"I like that business of pulling it into an internal world and manifesting an image. Color is too close to the real world." -Paul Caponigro

"It had nothing to do with whether or not you were going to be a better artist. Nothing! It had to do with developing your inner place, and once developed, you could apply it; it would automatically come into everything you did." -Paul Caponigro

"Everything worked out perfectly because I said 'yes' to my intuition." -Ruth Bernhard

"You know the human race can write poetry and music and create such beauty and still behave in such horrible ways." -Ruth Bernhard

"The distinction has little to do with the picture in front of them, it is in the mind of the viewer." -Ruth Bernhard

"Yet there are those who thought it was wrong for me to show a nude person. And I said to them all 'That means the Lord made a terrible mistake that we were born nude!' They did not like it, but it was the truth." -Ruth Bernhard

"I felt that so many artists treated the female form badly, like it was an object that was tied up with their own sexual desires. I wanted to show the female form as filled with grace. I think I was influenced by my father in this. He was a man whose frustration with women is reflected in his paintings. I find them offensive." -Ruth Bernhard

"Life is about saying 'Yes' to everything! And when you say 'Yes,' life agrees with you and then you do things that you always knew you could do, but maybe never thought about doing!" -Ruth Bernhard